The past is for learning from, not for living in.

Every being has the potential of becoming a Buddha. Our true nature is Buddha nature.

The true mark of a spiritual practitioner is that your own behavior is better, not that you can criticize others well.

The essence of all phenomena is empty and clear like space. The nature of mind is awareness-emptiness like the sun and sky.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

When we understand that peace is not dependent on external conditions, we can find it in the midst of any circumstance.

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Buddhist practice is not to eliminate life's problems but to grow with them patiently and with compassion.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

The first step toward faith is to admit that we don't know everything.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Liberation is not found by running away from our experience but by looking deeply into it.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Panic is a gateway to wisdom. When we learn to stay present with our panic, it becomes our teacher.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

True freedom is a freedom from the tyranny of our own thoughts and afflictive emotions.

If you want to understand suffering, you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.